how to photograph fireworks

Learn by Doing Photography – Practice your photography skills with weekly photography assignments. I will post a new assignment every Friday, you can post your pictures at the bottom of this post or on the DigitalCamFan Facebook. If you have any questions please refer to the guidelines, if you have no questions jump right in any time!

Learn by Doing Photography Assignment #27 – Fireworks!

If you have fireworks going off in your city tonight, you might want to check your camera bag this afternoon! Charge those batteries and make sure you SD cards are formatted and ready…

Items you will want to have tonight…

1. Tripod
2. Cable Release
3. turn off your flash
4. Shoot in Manual
5. lowest ISO
6. Try apertures around f/8 and smaller
7.. Try some shots of Bulb setting. Open before first burst, hold open until burst completes.
8. Look at your composition, do you want to have a silhouette of a tree or a building?
9. Take a look at your pictures on the screen, analyze your first picture, and then try again
9. Take lots of pictures, fireworks are tricky!
10. Have fun!

I found a couple great sites that go into detail how to capture fireworks!